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Bushawn Shelton, 39, coordinated the year-long patricide-for-hire scheme to murder Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola. Sally Daz's son, Anthony Zottola, ordered the killing because he coveted his 71-year-old dad’s multi-million-dollar real estate empire.

Sylvester Zottola, a reputed Mafia associate, survived repeated assassination attempts. Eventually, his son Anthony’s plot succeeded.

A federal jury found Anthony Zottola, 45, guilty in October of orchestrating a plot to kill his 71-year-old dad and try to murder his brother — by sending a bumbling band of Bloods gangsters to his relatives’ doorsteps for nearly a year before they finally succeeded.

Branden Peterson, 37, and Herman “Taliban” Blanco, 38, are the first of nine defendants to be sentenced in the murder-for-hire plot, which ended with the 71-year-old gangster slain by a fusillade of bullets at a Bronx McDonald’s drive-thru on Oct. 4, 2018.

The son of murdered New York mob associate Sylvester Sally Daz Zottola has been convicted of hiring the hitmen who killed him.

The Port Authority is testing electric vehicles with no driver for possible use at airports. It turns out they do stop if a pedestrian is in a crosswalk.

Anthony Zottola was found guilty Wednesday of orchestrating the killing of his Bronx mobster dad Sylvester “Sally Daz” Zottola, and the near-murder of his older brother.

Anthony Zottola was convicted of murder-for-hire Wednesday. Prosecutors say he wanted the real estate business of his father, Sylvester, a reputed Bonnano crime family associate.

Bloods member Kalik "Dot" McFarlane, 40, talked about his role in the failed attempts on Sylvester "Sally Daz" Zottola's life before he was gunned down in a Bronx McDonald’s drive-through on Oct. 11, 2018.

New photos and video show the gruesome aftermath of a 2018 hit on a reputed mafia associate who was gunned down in the drive-thru of a McDonalds in the Bronx.